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...waiting for the show's opening this week. Artist Lloyd had no idea what kind of artist he should call himself -expressionist? abstractionist? or what? Frank Perls, owner of the Beverly Hills gallery where Lloyd's work will be shown, has it all figured out. "Just as Rousseau was a primitive impressionist." he announced, "Lloyd is a primitive abstractionist, completely natural and undisturbed by the art of the past...
...quiet apartment on the Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau, 70-year-old Louis Ribes, a former French colonial administrator, turned to a friend. "I'd like to know more of what's happening," he said. "I think I'll drive out and have a look." "My friend, please don't," begged the other. But Ribes was determined. Two hours later, a body was found with head crushed, eyes gouged out, throat and trunk slashed and torn beyond recognition. From the tailor's label in the shreds of the suit, the body was identified as that...
...them, said Malskat, set up a regular production line for phony masters. Working steadily, even after they were commissioned to restore St. Mary's frescoes in 1948, they copied such masters as Degas, Corot, Gauguin, Renoir, Rousseau, Chagall, Munch, Utrillo. Malskat did all of the work; sometimes he copied famous old paintings, sometimes just imitated the style of old masters. He could do one in a day, got so good at the French impressionists that they took less than an hour. Fey forged the signature to paintings, said Malskat, then went out to peddle the fakes to German...
...that appeared frequently concerned the length and difficulty of the fall reading list; however, the section men cut this down for the spring, and have further revised the list for the new term. Primary source material is emphasized both terms and was most popular with '55. St. Augustine, Voltaire, Rousseau, J. S. Mill, Engels, Nietzsche, and Fromm were widely liked among the contemporary works, while of the texts, Pirenne, Sabine, and Brinton were best received...
Right from grade one the French believe in making schoolchildren work hard. At nine, a French child is already being stuffed with Chateaubriand and Rousseau; he parses sentences from Hugo and learns all about the Edict of Nantes. At 14, he must begin to dip (in English) into the works of Swift and Poe. By the time he gets to his "baccalaureat" exam, he must know his Tacitus and answer such questions as "What did P. A. Touchard mean when he said of Montaigne: 'Before everything and despite everything, Montaigne is alive...